PSY 103 Chapter 1-15: Notes and Study Guide to PSY103: Textbook notes
11 Jul 2018
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Understanding the psychology of participants in different areas of society: medicine, economics, city planning, educaiton, law, diplomacy, etc. Participation in different pyschological studies on campus for various hours. Trying to get people to blame each other so they can get at least one of them in prison. Is falsifiable (if it can"t predict new findings, we"ll be able to see that it can"t) Is simple ( parsimonious ) : unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy or frugal. Used with experiments, where irrelevant variables are controlled. Allows you to draw conclusions about causality. A variable x" that can be controlled by the researcher to potentially change the outcome of a study. It"s variation does not depend on that of any other variables. Can summarize data or show relation amoung variables, but can"t show cause. Must control for other variables to infer cause. Bad examples: abu"l-fath jalal ud-din muhammad akbar, 1542-1605.
